Zechariah 14:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Gather

Luke 2:1

The city

Luke 21:20

The houses

Matthew 24:19

The residue

Luke 21:24

Shall not

Galatians 4:26

General references

Bible References

Gather

Jehovah shall establish you a holy people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in His ways.

And He will lift up a banner to distant nations, and will hiss to them from the ends of the earth; and behold, they shall come with swift speed.

The Word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth (because his hand rules) and all the peoples, fought against Jerusalem and against all its cities; saying,

And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron. Since iron crushes and smashes all things; and as the iron that shatters all these, it will crush and shatter.

I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will fight with them there for My people and for My inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided My land.

But when the king heard, he was angry. And he sent out his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

The city

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand).

But when you see the abomination of desolation, that spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let him who reads understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

For the days will come on you that your enemies will raise up a rampart to you, and will surround you, and will keep you in on every side.

And when you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that its destruction has come.

The houses

And their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be robbed, and their wives raped.

The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her desirable things; for she has seen the nations enter her holy place, whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.

They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

So Jehovah says this: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line. And you shall die in a defiled land; and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.

And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!

The residue

And they shall fall by the sword's edge. And shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations until the times of the nations is fulfilled.

Shall not

And it shall be in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left in it.

Behold, it is written before Me; I will not be silent, except I will repay; yea, I will repay into their bosom

And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.

Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

But the Jerusalem from above is free, who is the mother of us all.

General references

And he shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down, throughout all the land. And he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given you.

So all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your enemies, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And they who rob you shall be robbed, and all who strip you I will strip.

They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Be prepared; yea, prepare for yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.